Found the suspect!
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Like on the news, they were listing causes for the fall. First one was design problem.
The original spanish architect sabotaged the bridge for revenge AND he also made a design mistake in the original one.
Case status: closed
The original design has to be very precise. The Spanish architect did not sabotage the Taiwan design, as he did not give his design to Taiwan architects/builders. And as a stolen cheap copy, we have the results now.
Remember the good old days when Taiwan was known for copying brand purses/watches/computers/etc. Reverse engineering was their forte. We have seen this done a lot with designs, like the lantern festival mascots and recently the leopard cat train debacle. Seems harmless enough, right? Oh, the Taiwanese, so clever, do not pay for the design, ha ha ha. The problem with doing that with structures is that the Taiwanese did not bother to adapt to circumstances. the Spanish bridge is over a river, the one in Suao gets all the corrosion from the sea. Moreover, whatever changes they made âto make it look differentâ could have weakened it more.
The proof is in the pudding: the Spanish architect is still respected, while the Taiwanese company who built the bridge closed down two months after its completion. One wonders why.
Edit:
original Spanish bridge still standing: 214 meters long
Taiwan bridge that fell: 140 meters
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With the way the roadway gave way due to one cable failing, this makes a lot of sense
Bridge design is complex, the design has to be accurate, they donât just scale up or down. Even the simplest changes like using stronger cables can add more weight to the structure and make it less safe.
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Happens in new Taipei city as well outside my house .
Usually itâs towards the end of the fiscal year theyâll dig up the same road done six months ago and pave it again. Gotta get your hands on that free govt money from your matesâŚ
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Canât let unspent budget go to waste!
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K-Man reporting 4 casualties so far.
Thatâs sad
Government policy: you cannot have unspent budget, or next year you will have less budget! And I am not kidding, here they sometimes treat us to âdrinksâ -meaning buy everyone touhua or tea drinks- in order to spend every single dime.
2 workers, one Filipino, one Indonesian, still missing.
The Army was going to blast/blasted already the debris so the boats can get out of the harbor and go fishing.
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Are you really sad?
As posted:
âHowever, he believes that Mitag should be blamed for the collapse.â
They have the culprit!
But then:
âThe universityâs report suggested reinforcing the bridge body with concrete, removing rust from the cable beams, repairing the downspouts and replacing the expansion joints of the angle iron, it said.â
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Hard to argue, the idea of a meh-strength typhoon hitting Ilan is totally unexpected.
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My favorite quote from Taiwanese bossesâŚ
âCost down!â
(The only English phrase that the bosses memorize)
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Of course sad they are my fellow countrymen.
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Judging by this photo in that article, itâs the cables that snapped, not the connectors.
Thereâs a gap where the one that gave way is.
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Same in the uk, you couldnât even put money aside to spend on a bigger project splitting it over two years, you had to apply separately and risk it being turned down.